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"Ladies Room" is the second episode of the first season of the American television drama series Mad Men. It was written by series creator Matthew Weiner and directed by Alan Taylor . Weiner has stated that the interval between writing the pilot and the second episode lasted seven years.
Elizabeth "Betty" Draper Francis [1] (formerly Draper, née Hofstadt) is a fictional character played by January Jones on AMC's television series Mad Men.She begins the show married to protagonist Don Draper (); following a separation in the third season, the two remain divorced for the remainder of the series, but continue to share custody of their three children.
The season ends just before Thanksgiving 1960, as Betty and Don bicker over Don's lack of interest in attending Thanksgiving dinner with Betty's family. Don cites his workload as his reason to stay home. Soon afterwards, Betty discovers Don was receiving calls from her psychiatrist, who was reporting on her sessions to Don.
Examples are when Betty smashed the wobbly chair from the dining room and when Peggy was pretending to be her own secretary. [4] Dan Owen, from Dan’s Media Digest, wrote about how suitable the title of the episode was since it was the night that Betty confronts Don about his affairs, making it a real turning point in the series. [ 5 ]
Compilation by Sarah Browne My mother was the original Betty Draper. Devoted to cocktail parties, country clubs and the eternal search for a pliable babysitter, she carefully filed the subject of ...
As a toxic smog cloud hangs over New York City during Thanksgiving 1966, [12] Betty's jealousy of Don and Megan leads her to tell Sally about Anna Draper. Don and Peggy are both irritated by Michael Ginsberg's rising star, and Don takes a devious approach to clip the wings of the young copywriter.
(There’s a scene in Mad Men, set in the 1960s, in which Betty Draper sits pensively—always so pensive, that Betty—in her bathroom against a backdrop of minty green squares.)
Betty learns from her doctor that she is expecting another child. After subtle questions about abortion, the doctor chides her to keep the child. Betty has sex with a stranger at a local bar. She returns home to find a letter from Don, begging her to let him come home. The season closes as Betty informs him of their new child.